CodeLobster PHP IDE for Drupal development
I received an invite to review CodeLobster - A new, feature rich, PHP IDE on the scene with very good support for Drupal and Wordpress among other CMS and Frameworks.
As a Drupal developer, the focus of this short introduction will be Drupal integration (obviously).
Among standard CodeLobster IDE features (free version), it has some very interesting support for Drupal development (pro version), one of the things many find lacking in many IDEs is out of the box Drupal support for Auto complete, API integration etc.
Using Nano (Syntax Highlight) for Drupal Module development
I mostly use Eclipse IDE as my main development environment for Drupal, but have got into the habit of using nano (in emergency situations) to patch and edit my Drupal modules. Often I find it frustrating to with with nano without any kind of syntax highlighting, specially when trying to scan through a big module. A little googling around and I found a way to enable PHP syntax highlighting for nano (rather simple):
